Details

Subjects:

Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint -- Art.
Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint.
Benedict, Saint, Abbot of Monte Cassino. Regula.
Lord's prayer -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Lord's prayer.
Monasticism and religious orders -- Rules -- Early works to 1800.
Monasticism and religious orders -- Rules.
Asceticism -- Early works to 1800.
Asceticism.

Form/Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)
illuminations.
Sermons.
Manuscripts, Latin -- 13th century.
Manuscripts, Medieval.

Contents:

1. [Exposition on the Lord's Prayer] (f. 1r).
2. Beati qui lugent [and other sermons, incomplete at end] (f. 1v-4v).
3. [Commentary on monastic rules] (f. 5r-30r).
4. Speculum monachorum beati Bernardi / [Arnoul de Bohéries] (f. 30v-47v).

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title for manuscript from caption title for predominant work, where the work has a common but incorrect attribution to Bernard of Clairvaux (f. 30v).
Foliation: Parchment, i (modern paper) + 47 + i (modern paper); [1-47]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto. Early foliation in ink, 143-146; [1-2] 3-43; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto, 29-32, 97-138, indicates these works were once part of a larger collection, or perhaps from different collections.
Layout: Written in 21-22 (f. 1-4) and 28 (f. 5-47) long lines; ruled in lead; prickings visible.
Script: Written in a Gothic book script by two different hands, the first (f. 1-4) from the early 13th century, the second (f. 5-47) from the second half of the 13th century (Zacour-Hirsch); marginal annotations in other hands.
Decoration: Illuminated Madonna and child, in gold, green, blue, red, and black, 8 cm. high (f. 1r); 2- and 3-line initials (f. 1v, 3r-v, 4r) in green, red, and blue; second section rubricated, with red 2- and 3-line initials (f. 5r and 30v).
Binding: Modern leather, splitting at upper hinge, lower cover detached.
Origin: Written in France[?], 13th century.
Heading [?] at the beginning of text (f. 5r) has been cut off.
Bookseller's description pasted inside upper cover.

Penn Provenance:

Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 29 June 1938, lot 538.
Appears in Bernard Quaritch's catalog 699 (1952).
Gift of Albert C. Baugh, 1965.

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), Supplement A (1) Library Chronicle 35 (1969), p. 8 (Ms. Latin 213).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 716.

Contributor:

Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 1091-1153, associated name.
Baugh, Albert C. (Albert Croll), 1891-1981, former owner.

OCLC:

155985480

Access Restriction:

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